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February 19, 2018

Generative Scribing by Kelvy Bird is truly beautiful and essential reading for anyone who works with other humans to visualize complex systems and generate useful dialog and insight.

I have known Kelvy since I started scribbling on whitewalls over 20 years ago. She has been an inspiration to many of us with her kind, thoughtful, self-deprecating, and soulful personality.

Unlike the typical how-to doodle book, drawing manual or resource guide, Generative Scribing is written more in the spirit of the Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh.

...or the German Bauhaus color theorist Joseph Albers.

...or perhaps, written by fellow Massachusetts Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. (spoiler alert: there is a beautiful scene involving Walden Pond during the 2017 solar eclipse.)

Kelvy succinctly lays out the brief history of scribing, which she has made publicly available online, and makes a generous nod to other friends and practitioners in the field.

Anyway, if you are in the world of group facilitation and visualizing ideas, get Kelvy's book for your bookshelf, backpack, or bedside.

(This is not a paid promotion, BTW. I am simply proud, honored and amazed by Kelvy's work.)

Kelvy and members of this international tribe—including Alfredo Carlo of Italy, Aaron Williamson of Toronto, Jayce Lee of Taiwan, Sophia Lang of California—are collaborating to teach generative scribing workshops.

They just delivered one in Portland, Oregan and had some majorly experienced scribes onsite interested in broadening their practice. Check out some photos on Sophia Lang's Instagram.

March 06, 2017

In a follow-up to a highly successful workshop held February 2017 in Bologna (Italy), three master scribes will offer a deep dive into the practice and application of visual thinking as a facilitation tool. [see details]

Visuals serve as key facilitative aids for collective seeing and navigation. Live scribing–giving form to the social body–is a method especially suited to address today’s great challenges. As visual practitioners, we face a particular need and opportunity to expand the awareness, mindsets, and choices that feed our outward expression.

Description: This immersive program is designed for intermediate and advanced visual practitioners who wish to strengthen and deepen their existing knowledge by enfolding Presencing, among other social technologies, towards developing mastery in the profession and field.​

July 19, 2016

This is a beginner course in graphic facilitation. No particular drawing skills are required. You will use simple drawing techniques and materials will be provided. Together, participants and presenters will create a safe learning environment where you are free to experiment and explore new ways of communicating.

Join us for this online seminar-style workshop and learn how to facilitate successful collaborative work at a distance. We will explore why collaborative work that is not co-located is so challenging, and how you can tame the challenges. We'll engage in discussion and practice, with practical learnings that you can put to use immediately.

July 06, 2016

Join visual practitioners from around the world and hear from leaders in the field at the 21st annual IFVP conference. You’ll leave with new ideas, new possibilities, new relationships and new inspiration to shape your practice. Registration is now open.

Saturday, July 30 (7 PM) – Tuesday, August 2 2016 (5 PM)

There’s nothing like being in a room full of people who work visually. Past participants have highlighted the generous spirit and extensive sharing that pervade the event.

New to this field? Connect with and learn from the people who are setting the standard as well as from others like you, who are just starting out.

More experienced? Find out what innovations and refinements your peers have put into practice.

An Unparalleled Experience

While online sites bring us closer together than ever before, there is no substitute for gathering in-person. “Face-to-face contact makes it easier to get to know people, discuss new ideas in visual work, and explore potential business opportunities. The IFVP conference is the largest event for visual practitioners, but small enough to be personal and inviting,” notes IFVP President Jenny Trautman.

Take a look at just a few highlights below from past conferences andregister now to reserve your spot for 2016!

July 03, 2016

Principles of Graphic Facilitation combines the theory and practice of graphic facilitation with the fundamentals of graphic recording. It is informed by David Sibbet’s definitive book Graphic Facilitation: Transforming Groups with the Power of Visual Listening. Participants learn to draw, create large-format displays, record, and practice facilitating and receiving feedback. They also design a meeting process and learn about methods of documenting visual meetings. This workshop is a full immersion in the best practices for applying visual language to group processes.

June 27, 2016

After more than a year of hard work and many drawings, drafts, and edits, ImageThink is excited to say that Draw Your Big Ideahas made its way to the bookshelf!

Drawing from years of experience as visual problem solvers for Fortune 50 companies, Draw Your Big Idea is packed with drawing exercises that will help entrepreneurs crystallize their visions, create actionable plans, and bring ideas out of the clouds and into reality.

June 22, 2016

This workshop is for consultants, team and project leaders, managers, facilitators, and trainers experienced in facilitation who want to use graphic displays to engage team members and meeting participants, capture ideas, focus their group's work, and improve implementation.

HighlightsPractice public listening, lettering, and core drawing skills of graphic recordingGain hands-on practice recording with blank paper, using the seven archetypal visual formats (Group Graphics® Keyboard) to focus a group's conversationLearn a starter repertoire of graphic icons for graphic recordingUse the Four Flows of facilitation—attention, energy, information and operations—to gain insight about your own facilitation practice and your clients' needs.

Join us for this online seminar-style workshop and learn how to facilitate successful collaborative work at a distance. We will explore why collaborative work that is not co-located is so challenging, and how you can tame the challenges. We'll engage in discussion and practice, with practical learnings that you can put to use immediately.

A three-day, hands-on immersion in the essential practices and visual tools to create and sustain high-performing teams. This is a certification workshop.

Explore the Drexler/Sibbet/Forrester Team Performance™ System, a framework for creating and sustaining high performing teams. Learn about predictable stages of team development and issues that inhibit team performance at each stage. Gain fluency with using the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model® to diagnose and address team issues and opportunities. Learn team leader best practices, both face-to-face and virtually

Strategic Visioning™, The Grove’s flagship visual planning system, brings together the best thinking of the whole organization using visually-supported strategic analysis, creative visioning work, focused action planning, and organization-communications design. Hindsight is combined with foresight to create insight and action in the present, using a process that values and includes multiple perspectives. While preserving the best practices of traditional planning, Strategic Visioning adds the engagement

Hands-on Intensive is for facilitators and consultants seeking to deepen their skills in designing and leading organization change and social change processes. Participants are invited to bring a process consultation challenge to the workshop. They will emerge with a process design and knowledge of a range of proven interventions that will lead to successful change. “This is one of the best Grove workshops I've been to,” a senior consultant attendee stated.

May 27, 2016

Are you looking to become a stronger leader? Do you want to gain the skills and toolsets to encourage participation in your organization, and facilitate focused discussions?

Come to beautiful Cape Cod August 11-13 for the Gestalt International Study Center's Visual Leadership Program! Lead by ImageThink co-founder, Nora Herting, and supported by GISC faculty Sky Freyss-Cole and Gwynne Guzzeau. In this intimate setting amongst other leaders you will learn strategic tools to help you:

Clarify and Align Goals, Actions and Outcomes

Increase the ability of your group to envision the future and to create a shared picture of what it looks like.

Use visual tools to help your team and partners to get on the same page with clear goals, roles and commitments.

Visualize Your Ideas

Present your ideas visually and get buy-in from your leaders, team members, partners or clients.

Make complex issues understandable by making the connections visible.

Stimulate Participation

Use templates and learning maps to engage colleagues or stakeholders in idea development and decision making to ensure high level of ownership.

Use the visual language to activate creative and critical thinking at the same time.